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2) Renegade
Author
Series
Lost Books graphic novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal continue their quest for the four still missing Books of History, Billos makes a decision that has devastating consequences for himself and his companions, especially the devoted Darsal.
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people "dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 10
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Mia tries to make friends with Olivia, the new girl, but when Olivia makes fun of the other Cupcake Club girls and tells Mia she shouldn't hang out with them, Mia must make a decision about her new friendship.
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 180 pages)
Language
English
Description
Just about every law enforcement entrance exam contains a section testing your reasoning or judgment ability. Why? Regardless of the law enforcement area you choose for your career, you'll have to make tough, education decisions on the job on a regular basis. This e-book provides essential practice and review for key reasoning, critical analysis, and problem-solving skills found on many official law enforcement exams. This comprehensive study resource...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xviii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties. In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals, and summers spent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Positive Options for Colorectal Cancer offers readers everything they need to know about understanding and dealing with colorectal cancer. It presents detailed information in a clear and concise manner from a well-known advocate and author who is a personal survivor of Stage III colorectal cancer for more than 20 years. Chapters present information on prevention techniques, warning signs, and screening tests including the latest on virtual colonoscopy...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Publisher: Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade Boggs more valuable than a power hitter like David Ortiz? Should NFL teams pass or run more often on first downs?...
12) Emma
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
GN 1070L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world's enduring affection for the headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her many romantic schemes. Like the previous volumes in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Emma: An Annotated Edition is a beautiful and illuminating gift edition that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1997, no one in the small town (pop. 100) of Redford, Texas knew that U.S. Marine teams, fully camouflaged and armed with M16 rifles, had been secretly deployed to their section of the border. Farmers like the Hernández family, who lived by the river, went on working their fields and tending to their livestock. On the evening of May 20, 18-year-old Esequiel Hernández Jr. left the house to tend to his family's goats, taking with him, as usual,...
Author
Language
English
Description
This one's worth reading. Trust me. Daniel Gilbert, PhD, bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness à Issues of trust come attached to almost every human interaction, yet few people realize how powerfully their ability to determine trustworthiness predicts future success. David DeSteno's cutting-edge research on reading trust cues with humanoid robots has already excited widespread media interest. In The Truth About Trust, the renowned psychologist...
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild's hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol's more than 20,000 patients have ranged from white mice to 2600 pound horses and everything...
16) Moonshine
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"To keep food on the table during the Great Depression, thirteen-year-old Cub helps his widower father illegally distill and sell moonshine, despite Prohibition. However, their relaxed business is interrupted when a gangster named Salvatore arrives and offers a once-in-a-lifetime distribution deal to Cub's father. Eager for a safer lifestyle, Cub decides to interfere with the gangster's negotiations and end the deal. However, this broken arrangement...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xvii, 427 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of the assassination of JFK, told by Secret Service agents who were there and who have lived with the guilt and grief from that day.
The Secret Service are an elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed, and a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFK's Secret Service detail reveals the inside story of the assassination,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love, the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they're forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today. When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 724 pages : pages, illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author presents a selection of pieces from his Scientific American "Mathematical Games" column, presenting puzzles and concepts that range from arithmetic and geometrical games to the meaning of M.C. Escher's artwork.
Author
Publisher
Red Brick Learning
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages.: ill., map; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, Elie Wiesel was born to Jewish parents in Germany. The Nazis began their oppression of Jews in Germany in the 1930s; in the spring of 1944, Wiesel, his parents and his sisters were forced onto train cars headed for concentration camps. His mother and his young sister were immediately put to death. Elie's father survived until 1945, but died shortly before Allied troops liberated the camp where father and son had been contained. Parentless...
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